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2016 Selected Open Tourism “Gochang Sununsan Provincial Park” - Gochang-gun, Jeollabuk-do, Korea

Seonunsan Green Tea Field Road

2016 Selected Open Tourism “Gochang Sununsan Provincial Park”

Gochang-gun, Jeollabuk-do, Korea

Seonunsan Mountain was designated as a provincial park in 1979 as a scenic spot called Naeumgang River in Honam. .
I visited Seonunsan Provincial Park in Gochang, Jeollabuk-do. The mystery of the deep forest steals the mind. I recently filmed two films embroidered on the screen with overwhelming natural beauty. Movie Gokseong and Okja. Apart from the contents, if you look at the screen, these are movies that admire the beauty of our land. Charming Destination Sununsan Provincial Park is an open destination where people with disabilities are comfortable and non-disabled people can visit without discomfort.
[Gochang Sununsan Provincial Park 개선 Contents for improving accessibility for the underprivileged]
Improvement summary
Barrier-free tourism information webpage
-Information on open tourist destinations selected from 2015 to 2016, and open services provided in Goun Seonsan Provincial Park, tourist maps, and tourist information such as nearby tourist attractions
-Web accessibility and mobile accessibility guidelines applied
-Enhanced accessibility with features such as voiceover and talkback of smartphones
Sununsan Provincial Park barrier-free tourist information page
Open tourist information brochure
-Introduction of open tourist attractions and information on 11 open tourist destinations in 2015 and 2016
-Improvements through open tourism projects, 'Sununsan Provincial Park barrier-free tourist spots' introduction: Introduction to barrier-free tourism courses, parking spaces and toilets for disabled people, location of palpable information facilities, rest areas, etc.
-Improved map guidance for tourist destinations using highly readable pictograms
-Wheelchair-accessible space in the tourist attraction and main tour lines and related facilities
Open tourist information brochure
Producing an open tourism braille guidebook
-Braille guide map for the visually impaired and low vision to grasp the entire facilities and moving lines
-Braille guidebook that introduces tourist information in the Seonunsan Provincial Park and major tourist attractions around the park.
Producing an open tourism braille guidebook
Improving parking for disabled people and access pedestrian paths
Handicapped Parking Area
Stepless access
Improvement of main walking environment and pavement of the floor in the direction of Seonunsa
Toilet in front of Seounsan Tourist Information Center
Step removal and improvement of uneven walking environment
Improving toilets and rest facilities for the disabled
Improving toilet access
Expansion of interior space
Toilet Braille Guide
Disabled toilet ramp installation
Secure wheelchair rotation space and install handle
Installation of tactile map (voice service) for the visually impaired
-Provide information on barrier-free tourism routes to the vulnerable groups such as the disabled by installing braille information boards in the main lanes of the park.
-Expanding tourist information by using pictograms, braille, and voice guidance
Installation of palpable information facilities
Guide to guide the visually impaired and improve accessibility to rest areas
Guided braille handle for the visually impaired
-Describes the location and direction of public facilities such as parking lots, shelter, and toilets for the disabled in tourist attractions, and displays wheelchair-accessible spaces, main tourist routes, and related amenities
15 back benches installed
Songak village, which is colored green with cliffs flowing through the valley, greets visitors. The famous Gochang Samin-ri Songak (European Songsong, White Cow Ax) is a grass that cows love and is a grass that has no time to grow. Songak, Samin-ri, Gochang, grew up after eating the moisture in the middle of the forest because it was rooted in a cliff rock wall that cows could not reach. Thanks to the embroidering of the Myeongdang, he became an old man who could not measure his age and was designated as a natural monument in 1991. You can appreciate the beauty of Songak, where the green color stretches lushly across the valley. There is no step, so even wheelchair users can enjoy the beauty of the graceful old trees near the valley.
Road to Gochang Songak
The road leading from Songak to the Seonunsa Temple of the Millennium Review in the Seonunsan Provincial Park is a green tunnel. Beautifully grown trees, such as hornbeam, cherry, and maple trees, covered the sky. To prepare for the heat, I wore a short-sleeved T-shirt and put a lot of sunscreen on it. Even in hot summer, the road is shady and cool. Strollers and wheelchairs are free on the lush green roads without uphill.
Songak, rooted in a cliff
The cool green wind surrounds the body and the sound of the water of Dosolcheon by the road is clearly heard. This is the moment when I want to stay for one day and stay indefinitely. The road wears different clothes depending on the season. It is all green now, but in the fall, the red flower blooms beautifully. The accompanying cultural commentator expressed the indescribable flower bowl with the words 'hundreds of millions of trillions'. In the fall that is overwhelmed by this overwhelming expression, it seems that we will find the red path with flowers blooming again.
From Songak to Seonunsa Temple
The forest becomes even more cozy and calm when you enter the natural trail on the obstacle in Seonunsan Mountain.
Seonuncheon (Dosolcheon)
It gently embraces the traveler on the path of trees that grow up to the side of the deck.
Sununsan barrier-free nature trail
The bench in front of the 250-year-old ipop tree, which grew to a height of 12 meters in the middle of the trail, is thoughtful. A space for a stroller or wheelchair was placed between the two benches, allowing them to sit side by side and enjoy a beautiful mood.
Wheelchair accessible-wide spaced bench in front of ipop tree
Crossing the bridge across Dosolcheon leads to a green tea field grown in Seonunsa Temple.
Green tea leaves grown in Seonunsa
Seonunsa has long been famous for tea cultivation. Seonunsa Temple is said to be a temple where the money was always turning thanks to the line of yangbans to buy cars here even during the Joseon Dynasty, when the policy of Sung Yu-Bak was in full swing.
Seonunsa Temple
Green tea had to clear the head, so I had to boil it to my son who was preparing for the past, and I sent a green tea seed to my daughter. There was a theory that green tea seeds were born in the shape of a male testicle, so that if they were planted in the land of a house, they would give birth to a son and be years old. Hundred small hills are gathered together thanks to the overlap of hundreds of green tea fields under Seonunsan Ohyeongjebong. The scenery is round and round. It feels like a heart.
Seonunsa Temple
It's time to come back and head for Seonunsa Temple. Through the side door next to Iljumun, wheelchairs and strollers can enter the temple through a steep slope without steps. There are many precious things in the Seonunsa Temple, which was founded by the Geomdan Missionary in the 24th year of King Widen of Baekje. Behind the Daeungjeon Hall is a colony of 500-year-old camellia trees designated as natural monuments, and in front of the Daeungjeon Hall is a six-story stone pagoda built during the Goryeo Dynasty, and a mansuru with a crooked shedding column and a thin shedding column. Anecdotes on the Geumdong Jizo Bodhisattva designated as Treasure No. 279 are famous.
Enter Sununsa Temple through Iljumun
All the owners of the Geumdong Jizo Bodhisattva, who were plundered by Japan during the Japanese colonial era, had the same dream. The Jizo Bodhisattva appeared and said, "I must go back to Gochang's Dosol Mountain (an alias for Seonunsan)."
The access road to Jijangbokgung requires help due to Seokseok
Eventually, the last director contacted the Gochang Police Station to return the Geumdong Jizo Bodhisattva, and has since been enshrined at the Jijangbokgung Palace in Seonunsa. The statue of Geumdong Jizo is enshrined in the room, so unfortunately it is not easy to see it directly when using a wheelchair.
Geumdong Jizo Bodhisattva
Personally, what I think is the most precious in Sunwoonsa is not a treasure, but a natural monument. Consideration is hard to find in other temples. A wheelchair aisle was installed in front of the Gwaneumjeon, where several stone steps were required to climb. Letting anyone see the gentle smile of the Quan Yin Bodhisattva without being alienated, is this a must for the temple?
Wheelchair passage in front of Gwaneumjeon
Travel information

Seonunsa Temple

-Address: 158-6, Seonunsa-ro, Asan-myeon, Gochang-gun, Jeollabuk-do (398-4, Samin-ri)

-Phone: 063-560-8681, 063-560-8682, 063-560-8683, 063-560-8684

-home page : http://seonpark.gochang.go.kr/

-Holidays: Open all year

-Visiting time: The park is open 24 hours, and access to the Sununsa Temple is restricted after sunset For safety reasons, do not visit at night.


Barrier-free information

-Admission fee

* Park facility fee: 2,000 won for passenger car (1,000 won for light car), 3,000 won for bus, 400 won for two-wheeled vehicle
* Entrance Fee for Cultural Properties: Disabled, National Merit Free, 3,000 won for adults, 2,000 won for youth / military soldiers, 1,000 won for children

-Parking lot: Parking for the disabled

-Toilets for the disabled: There are a total of three toilets for the disabled, from the driveway to the place where they return after passing through Sunwoonsa Temple.

-Others: The ramp to enter the Jijangbokgung with the Geumdong Jizo Bodhisattva is steep and somewhat steep.

Move information
Public transportation information
-3 hours from Seoul Central City Express Terminal to Gochang (get off at Heungdeok or Gochang)
* 20 minutes from Heungdeok to Gununsa bus
* From Gochang, take the intra-city bus bound for Seonunsa, time required 40 minutes
* Direct bus from Gwangju and Jeongeup to Sununsa.

Self-driving information
-When using the West Coast Highway
● Sununsan IC (turn left immediately after passing) ▶ Go straight and turn left at Samin Intersection ▶ Enter the provincial park
● Gochang IC (turn right after passing) ▶ Go straight towards Asan ▶ Godoldol ▶ ▶ Turn right at the three-way intersection in Asan-myeon ▶ Turn left at Banam 3-way intersection ▶ Enter the metropolitan park

-When using the Honam Expressway
● Jeongeup IC ▶ Turn left towards Gochang ▶ Turn left at Jeha Intersection ▶ Enter the elevated road on the right side of Sununsan IC ▶ Turn left at Samin Intersection ▶ Enter the Provincial Park

-Namhae Expressway
● Namhae Expressway ▶ Suncheon Junction ▶ Honam Expressway ▶ Gochang ~ Damyang Expressway (Gochang side) ▶ Namgochang Junction (Seoul side) ▶ West Coast Expressway Sununsan IC
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